Stsadm extrem slow…also on 2010

The last few days I was facing a very strange thing. A Customer environment was extremely slow and we are not sure about the reason. First we found several faulty Firewall rules, after that some other things within OS-Config, but nothing was the source of braking down the performance of any Powershell-cmdlet and also stsadm.

The Reason: SharePointfarm was installed within a DMZ behind a firewall. SharePoint had no access to internet, also no connection to http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSignPCA.crl SharePoint 2010 needs access to at least this file to make sure, all CertificateRevocationLists are up to date. In case, no access to the internet could be granted, there are some possible ways. I have done only step 1 until now (with success :-] ), so no warranty to the other one (not checked yet):

Disable the CRL check by modifying the registry for all user accounts that use STSADM and all service accounts used by SharePoint. Find yourself a group policy wizard to help you out or manually modify the registry: